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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER

My Grandmothers Hands will change the direction of the movement for racial justice. Robin DiAngelo, New York Times bestselling author of White Fragility

In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.

The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. Menakem argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. Our collective agony doesnt just affect African Americans. White Americans suffer their own secondary trauma as well. So do blue Americansour police.

My Grandmothers Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not only about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.

  • Paves the way for a new, body-centered understanding of white supremacyhow it is literally in our blood and our nervous system.
  • Offers a step-by-step healing process based on the latest neuroscience and somatic healing methods, in addition to incisive social commentary.

  • Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, is a therapist with decades of experience currently in private practice in Minneapolis, MN, specializing in trauma, body-centered psychotherapy, and violence prevention. He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and Dr. Phil as an expert on conflict and violence. Menakem has studied with bestselling authors Dr. David Schnarch (Passionate Marriage) and Dr. Bessel van der Kolk (The Body Keeps the Score). He also trained at Peter Levines Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute.

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Special Praise for My Grandmothers Hands

My Grandmothers Hands is a gripping journey through the labyrinths of trauma and its effects on modern life, especially for African Americans. In this important book, Resmaas penetrating insight into trauma is profoundly impactful, but even more powerful and useful are his strategies for addressing itfor healing. A brilliant thinker, Resmaa is able to bring a multitude of research and experience together to guide us in our understanding of how trauma affects our lives; how trauma is a part of all of our lives; and of how the history and progression of trauma has produced a culture in which no one is immune. This is essential reading if we are to wrest ourselves from the grips of trauma and discover the tropes in which our bodies and our minds are free of it.

Alexs Pate, author of Amistad and Losing Absalom

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Resmaa Menakem cuts to the heart of Americas racial crisis with the precision of a surgeon in ways few have before. Addressing the intergenerational trauma of white supremacy and its effects on all of usunderstanding it as a true soul woundis the first order of business if we hope to pull out of the current morass. As this amazing work shows us, policies alone will not do it, and bold social action, though vital to achieving justice, will require those engaged in it to also take action on the injury, deep and personal, from which we all suffer.

Tim Wise, best-selling author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son and Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority

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As a career peace officer, I entered this noble profession to serve my community, but I had never received any instruction in the police academy or been issued a piece of equipment that prepared me to recognize or examine community trauma... or my own. My Grandmothers Hands gave me a profound and compelling historical map tracing law enforcements role as sometimes unknowing contributors to community trauma. The book gives peace officers tools that can help in the healing of their communities and emphasizes self-care so that the men and women entrusted to be guardians and protectors of our communities are taken care of as well.

Medaria Arradondo, Acting Chief, Minneapolis Police Department

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My Grandmothers Hands invites each of us to heal the racial trauma that lives in our bodies. As Resmaa Menakem explains, healing this trauma takes courage and a commitment to viscerally feel this racial pain. By skillfully combining therapy expertise with social criticism and practical guidance, he reveals a path forward for individual and collective healing that involves experiencing the sensations of this journey with each step. Are you willing to take the first step?

Alex Haley, Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesotas Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing

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Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois put his finger on African American consciousness when he wrote, One ever feels his twonessan American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body. But even Du Bois never addressed the process of healing the psychological wounds of the two-ness. In My Grandmothers Hands, Resmaa offers a path of internal reconciliation for a person enduring the generational trauma of American racism and gives us all a chance to dream of a healing from it.

Keith Ellison, Member of Congress and Deputy Chair of the Democratic National Committee

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Offers a well-needed paradigm shift on how we think, dream, and strategize against white supremacy in our bodies, cultures, and institutions. A must-have for anyone interested in advancing racial justice and healing.

Chaka A. Mkali, Director of Organizing and Community Building at Hope Community and hip-hop artist I Self Devine

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My Grandmothers Hands is a revolutionary work of beauty, brilliance, compassion and ultimately, hope. With eloquence and grace, Resmaa Menakem masterfully lays out the missing piece in the puzzle of why, despite so many good intentions, we have not achieved racial justice. Yes, we need to understand white supremacy, but as Menakem so skillfully explains, white supremacy is not rational and we wont end it with our intellect alone. White supremacy is internalized deep into our bodies. We must begin to understand it as white body supremacy and go to the depth of where it is stored, within our collective bones and muscles. To this end, My Grandmothers Hands is an intimate guidebook toward racial healing, one that achieves that rare combination for its readers; it is deeply intellectually stimulating while also providing practical ways to engage in the process of repair, even as we read. I believe this book will change the direction of the movement for racial justice.

Robin DiAngelo, Racial Justice Educator and author of White Fragility

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Forget diversity. Forget teaching tolerance. Forget white guilt. With clarity and insight, Resmaa offers a profoundly different approach to healing racism in America.

John Friel, PhD, and Linda Friel, MA, directors of ClearLife Clinic and New York Times best-selling co-authors of nine books, including Adult Children: The Secrets of Dysfunctional Families

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A fascinating, must-read, groundbreaking book that offers a novel approach to healing Americas long-standing racial trauma.

Joseph L. White, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Psychiatry at UC Irvine and co-author of The Psychology of Blacks, Black Man Emerging, Black Fathers, and Building Multicultural Competency: Development, Training, and Practice

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Resmaas book is an intimate and direct look at the way the Black-white dynamic is held, not only in institutions such as policing, but also in the bodies of all of those involved. Building on Dr. DeGruys work in Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Resmaa looks at how history is held and replayed by the bodys survival responses, specifically focusing on the experience of Blackness and trauma, the history and experience of whiteness and the white body, and the creation of and experience of the police force....

In addition to providing theory and analysis, this book also offers concrete practices that are part of the work of shifting the violence of the original wound.

Susan Raffo, shared owner of Integral Somatic Therapy, bodyworker, writer, and community organizer, The Peoples Movement Center

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My Grandmothers Hands is full of wisdom and understanding. In it, Resmaa Menakem offers a new way to understand racism and, more importantly, to heal it. This book lays out a path to freedom and peace, first for individual readers, then for our culture as a whole. A must-read for everyone who cares about our country.

Nancy Van Dyken, LP, LICSW, author of Everyday Narcissism

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